Gothic BC

Thursday November 4 – THE FLOOR. PRIMES, A SPECTRE IS HAUNTING EUROPE with DJ EPINE at the Lamplighter Pub in Gastown

A SPECTRE IS HAUNTING EUROPE are deathrock inflected post-punk/goth-pop featuring ex-members of infamous and great bands such as aLUnARED, Decora, Verona and Automovement. Influences include Christian Death, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Bauhaus, Wire, and The Faint. A Spectre is Haunting Europe make the type of dance music that sound great after a break-up or on a cold rainy night. They have just returned from New York where they appeared at The Knitting Factory as part of the Drop Dead music festival.

PRIMES is the exercise of two people using machines to produce music with the energy and urgency of punk/hardcore and early techno/EBM/new wave/noise/ - prompting the duo of Primes to exert twice as much passion as ferocity than a "traditional" band format. Jack Duckworth was part of aLUnARED (also of Radio Berlin), who left a number of exceptional releases with Global Symphonic, Action Driver, and Gold Standard Labs as well as evidence of some powerful and physically destructive shows, after their dissolve in late 2003. After that project he teamed up with veteran Vancouver techno/electro DJ Miss X (Michelle Synnot) and have been over the first half of 2004 starting to "rock the boat" live and in their emerging recordings. Primes is a new sound and force, bringing together postpunk/hardcore, EBM, electro, techno, and noise into a very lucrative and genuinely unique package.

Edmonton's THE FLOOR are the least gothic of these 3 bands and fall more in the category of post-punk with influences including Joy Division and Echo & The Bunnymen. Most recently when they were in Vancouver they played two triumphant shows - one with Bakelite at Lamplighter and the other with Radio Berlin at Brickyard – announcing to the west coast that there are one of Canada's most important new bands. In Edmonton, they have opened for Projektor, Falconhawk, Despistado, Radio Berlin and The Pixies, solidifying themselves locally as the "it" band. Heavily influenced by underground British 80's rock, The Floor's songs range from sweeping melodramas to angular guitar assaults to sexy dance-floor fillers. The Floor thus far, have released 2 eps that have charted on campus radio stations across Canada, and it is certain that their next release will confirm them as standouts amongst their contemporaries.

With DJ Epine spinning the best in post-punk and goth.

Presented by CASBAH! special edition

The Lamplighter Pub, Doors 9pm/$7